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  2.           SIZE (and ATSIZE)                          Art Merrill
  3.           Command(s)                     PC Magazine Vol 5, No 1
  4.         Copyright 1986 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
  5.           ______________________________________________________
  6.  
  7.           Purpose:  Calculates the storage requirements of a file
  8.                     or group of files, based on the number of DOS
  9.                     clusters necessary to make floppy disk and
  10.                     hard disk copies.
  11.  
  12.           Format:   SIZE [d:]     (all files, default directory)
  13.                        or
  14.                     SIZE [d:][path]filename[.ext]
  15.  
  16.           Remarks:  DOS stores files in fixed-length allocation
  17.                     units called "clusters."  For floppy disks,
  18.                     the cluster size is 1024 bytes (two 512-byte
  19.                     sectors); for the PC and XT 10-